Alternative Vashon

Monday, 3-4PM

Live From Bill's Garage

Tune in this week as REM plays live in the Alt Vashon Garage, and Joan Jett hangs out. The Long Lost Song is from 1981, and you will hear Killer Tracks by Alice in Chains, Air, Hole, Flaming Lips, and Midnight Oil.

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Inspired Island

Tuesday, 5 -5:30PM
Abigail Lawson

Join us for a new episode of Inspired Island this week, featuring Abigail Lawson of Studio Stillpoint! Abby is a yoga teacher, a community builder, and a small-business owner here on Vashon Island. With the help of a diverse group of fellow teachers, Abby curates a variety of yoga classes, community gatherings, and holistic practices at Stillpoint. (By the way, Abby hosts a fabulous free yoga class for youth on Fridays at 9am!) Join us to hear how Abby first fell in love with yoga, her passion for community, and why she loves calling Vashon Island home after traveling around the world. Abby shares her vision for Stillpoint and why wellness, at both individual and community levels, is more important than ever during these challenging times. 

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Embracing the Muse

Tuesday, 6-7 PM

Grief, Age, Love

Jeanie Okimoto recently published Grief, Age, Love, featuring poems by many Vashon poets who offer their poetic insights into life’s last chapters. We talk about the book as well as Jeanie’s creative path as author, playwright, and publisher and social activist.

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Boogie Back to Texas

Wednesday, 6-7 PM
Americana

You have heard Boogie Back host Geoff Fletcher use the term Americana a lot if you listen regularly, but what is this “genre?” Tune in to hear the official – and wordy – definition from the Americana Music Association, or better yet, listen to songs from Texas musicians that have been nominated for song of the year by the AMA. There is a bit of a bluegrass feel from Sarah Jarosz and The Gourds, and some smoky dark songs from Lee Ann Womack and Buddy Miller. Rodney Crowell and Lucinda Williams get political and Hayes Carll laments that She Left Me for Jesus. Other love songs come from Steve Earle and The Highwomen. That list doesn’t define it, but the lyrics and the sounds of the songs do. Gotta listen.

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Beyond Category

Thursday, 3-4 PM

A Sound Staycation

On Beyond Category this week, hear music from Haiti, South Africa, Algeria, the Middle East, and Cuba, along with American musicians paying tributes to Africa and its music and people, and more. Hop on for a sound staycation taking you far and wide.  

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Human Music

Saturday, 6-7 PM

Musician Steve Kim

Join a conversation with guest musician, bassist, composer, and teacher Steve Kim as we listen to Edgar Varèse's Poèma èlectronique and Pentagraph from Steve's new album A Saint's Past, A Sinner's Future.

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Sunday Silence

Sunday, 11 – Midnight

Etymologies

This episode of SUNDAY SILENCE explores the desires woven into the tissue of our words—those strange, beautiful, sometimes terrifying forces that bind and undo us; a meditation, a lingering: on radical longing, on possession as presence beyond ownership, on the gateways the curiosity of our passion opens between us. From the ecstatic vulnerability of devotion, this hour is a love avant la lettre—a gesture, not a demand—dedicated to the you that calls us back, again and again, to find, to be found. Featuring Fuya Fuya & Entrañas, Mica Levi, and Areliz Ramos.

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